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Robotics Research Publications
An open index of robotics research papers, refreshed daily.
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LOCOMOTION papers(1,239)
Clear ✕Efficient Autonomous Navigation of a Quadruped Robot in Underground Mines on Edge Hardware
Yixiang Gao, Kwame Awuah-Offei
2026
Look Forward to Walk Backward: Efficient Terrain Memory for Backward Locomotion with Forward Vision
Shixin Luo, Songbo Li, Yuan Hao +4 more
2026
CMoE: Contrastive Mixture of Experts for Motion Control and Terrain Adaptation of Humanoid Robots
Shihao Ma, Hongjin Chen, Zijun Xu +6 more
2026
CASSR: Continuous A-Star Search through Reachability for real time footstep planning
Jiayi Wang, Steve Tonneau
2026
DreamFlow: Local Navigation Beyond Observation via Conditional Flow Matching in the Latent Space
Jiwon Park, Dongkyu Lee, I Made Aswin Nahrendra +2 more
2026
Design, Modeling and Direction Control of a Wire-Driven Robotic Fish Based on a 2-DoF Crank-Slider Mechanism
Yita Wang, Chen Chen, Yicheng Chen +5 more
2026
Watch Your Step: Learning Semantically-Guided Locomotion in Cluttered Environment
Denan Liang, Yuan Zhu, Ruimeng Liu +3 more
2026
Wukong-Omni: Design, Modeling and Control of a Multi-mode Robot for Air, Land, and Underwater Exploration with All-in-One Propulsion Unit
Yufan Liu, Rixi Yu, Junjie Li +7 more
2026
Learning Therapist Policy from Therapist-Exoskeleton-Patient Interaction
Grayson Snyder, Lorenzo Vianello, Levi Hargrove +2 more
2026
CHOP: Counterfactual Human Preference Labels Improve Obstacle Avoidance in Visuomotor Navigation Policies
Gershom Seneviratne, Jianyu An, Vaibhav Shende +6 more
2026
Learning Thermal-Aware Locomotion Policies for an Electrically-Actuated Quadruped Robot
Letian Qian, Yuhang Wan, Shuhan Wang +1 more
2026
SFCo-Nav: Efficient Zero-Shot Visual Language Navigation via Collaboration of Slow LLM and Fast Attributed Graph Alignment
Chaoran Xiong, Litao Wei, Xinhao Hu +5 more
2026
A Deployable Bio-inspired Compliant Leg Design for Enhanced Leaping in Quadruped Robots
Yiyang Chen, Yuxin Liu, Jinzheng Zhou +4 more
2026
TMR-VLA:Vision-Language-Action Model for Magnetic Motion Control of Tri-leg Silicone-based Soft Robot
Ruijie Tang, Chi Kit Ng, Kaixuan Wu +5 more
2026
Layered Safety: Enhancing Autonomous Collision Avoidance via Multistage CBF Safety Filters
Erina Yamaguchi, Ryan M. Bena, Gilbert Bahati +1 more
2026
Enhancing Cellular-enabled Collaborative Robots Planning through GNSS data for SAR Scenarios
Arnau Romero, Carmen Delgado, Jana Baguer +2 more
2026
Biomechanical Comparisons Reveal Divergence of Human and Humanoid Gaits
Luying Feng, Yaochu Jin, Hanze Hu +1 more
2026
Jumping Control for a Quadrupedal Wheeled-Legged Robot via NMPC and DE Optimization
Xuanqi Zeng, Lingwei Zhang, Linzhu Yue +4 more
2026
Event-Driven On-Sensor Locomotion Mode Recognition Using a Shank-Mounted IMU with Embedded Machine Learning for Exoskeleton Control
Mohammadsaleh Razmi, Iman Shojaei
2026
Autonomous Sea Turtle Robot for Marine Fieldwork
Zach J. Patterson, Emily Sologuren, Levi Cai +4 more
2026
A Robotic Testing Platform for Pipelined Discovery of Resilient Soft Actuators
Ang Li, Alexander Yin, Alexander White +6 more
2026
KCFRC: Kinematic Collision-Aware Foothold Reachability Criteria for Legged Locomotion
Lei Ye, Haibo Gao, Huaiguang Yang +6 more
2026
CACTO-BIC: Scalable Actor-Critic Learning via Biased Sampling and GPU-Accelerated Trajectory Optimization
Elisa Alboni, Pietro Noah Crestaz, Elias Fontanari +1 more
2026
WildOS: Open-Vocabulary Object Search in the Wild
Hardik Shah, Erica Tevere, Deegan Atha +6 more
2026